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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?

2. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by whom?

3. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

4. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?

5. What is the title of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?

2. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?

3. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?

4. How does the author describe history’s depiction of women in the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?

6. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?

7. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?

8. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?

9. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?

10. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Marshall Plan and its influences and repercussions. When did the plan begin operation? How much money did the United States provide to Europe in order to rebuild the economy and prevent the spread of Communism? Why did the United States see Communism as an ultimate threat?

Essay Topic 2

Examine and discuss the Seminole Wars, the policy of Indian removal, and the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law? By whom? What were the effects of this act on the Native Americans living both east and west of the Mississippi?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the various factors that led to the American colonial discontent which enabled the American Revolutionary War. How many independent revolts had taken place in the colonies prior to the war? What does the author assert in regards to the motivations of the war? Do you agree or disagree with Zinn’s perspective? Why?

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